Re: THE BIG GUNDOWN.Koch's release has a strange anomaly, about an hour into the picture; there's a short fragment of the FACCIA A FACCIA score that plays during a shot in which Tomas Milian rides away from the camera, leaving Van Cleef alone in the desert. I wondered if this anomalous piece of music had been inserted by Koch as a 'watermark' of sorts. Does anyone know for sure?

Ben, in reading Vito`s post above, I realized I`d completely forgotten about this. It`s not a big deal, at least to me, but the brief piece of music from Face To Face does play on the Koch Big Gundown disc. Thought I should correct myself, although I`m certain you`ll still be very happy with the set if you pick it up. That`s the only audio glitch in the set that I`m aware of.

Just to reinforce what Andrew said, if I hadn't been so familiar with the film, I doubt that I would have even noticed the short piece of music from FACCIA A FACCIA: it only appears for a couple of seconds, and to be honest it almost fits the scene like a glove--but if you're familiar with the films' scores, it stands out like a sore thumb. However, it certainly wouldn't hamper your enjoyment of the film; it's just a strange anomaly.

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Placed my order for both Big Gundown and Face To Face from Explosive Media last week. Love SWs but have not seen them yet, so looking forward to it. My expectations are extremely high, hope i wont be disappointed.

By the way, is the Explosive Media releases uncut? Did not look it up before placing my order, just assumed.

I'm holding out for the Grindhouse restoration which will smoke this version.

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Sony Pictures’ restoration of Sergio Solima’s THE BIG GUNDOWN will receive its international premiere in a new 4K restoration featuring the original Italian soundtrack. The screening will take place on 20th October.

You're right, over here Eureka were going to put out a Blu but the elements or whatever weren't good enough so they just released a DVD. I should imagine it's the same transfer.

Yeah hard to imagine they would have used some other transfer for this new disc but I'm sure Eureka didn't filter all the grain away (while Explosive Media did [based on screenshots] and according to German forums it looks worse than the old Koch disc). This new EM disc has English audio track though, I just don't know about the quality compared to the old Japanese release but apparently some part(s) of the track are missing (even though present on the Japanese disc).